David Edgar’s Written on The Heart

A short profile of a Play about the ‘first’ translation of the Bible into English. The play was first produced in 2011…

Stephen Boxer & Oliver Ford Davies in Written on the Heart. Image: The Daily Telegraph

David Edgar has had a long and distinguished career, but only with Written on The Heart has he (for me) created something that will stand alongside, for instance, Miller’s The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, Shaw’s Saint Joan and Major Barbara, Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, and not…